South East: Human resources

Immigration

Duncan Lewis Solicitors¬†excels in public law immigration matters, where its team 'is not afraid to challenge accepted norms, take risks in advancement of its client's case and push boundaries in the client's favour'.¬†The practice acts for businesses and individuals on the full range of personal immigration, asylum and human rights, and nationality matters, as well as assisting high-net-worth individuals with points based system applications and appeals. In an illustration of its public law expertise, the practice acted in the lead case challenging removals to Bulgaria under the Dublin III Regulations. Key figures include¬†Bahar Ata, whose 'understanding of immigration issues, especially asylum support and EEA law, is second to none'; Ahmed Aydeed, who has extensive experience in asylum claims and unlawful detention matters;¬† and the 'outstanding' Zofia Duszynska, who demonstrates 'extraordinary¬†commitment to clients and up-to-date knowledge of relevant law'.

South East: Insurance

Clinical negligence: claimant

The 'dedicated and hardworking clinical negligence team' at Duncan Lewis Solicitors¬†is 'a safe bet and gets good results'. It is best known for its work on brain, spinal and neurological injury claims for both children and adults against NHS and private hospitals, while also covering obstetric, neonatal, cerebral palsy, anaesthetic, cardiac, organ damage, surgical, emergency care and prescription matters. 'First-class lawyer' and department lead¬†Rebecca Thomas¬†is recommended.

South East: Private client

Family: Beds, Bucks, Herts, Middx

Duncan Lewis Solicitors¬†is 'a¬†well-established¬†and respected firm that provides a high quality of work in an efficient and friendly way'. Its expertise covers divorce and matrimonial cases, with notable expertise in representing domestic abuse victims under legal aid and mediation, as well as ancillary relief expertise. It also handles public law and cross-border issues concerning children, and has niche shari'ah-law expertise. Key figures include¬†Ravi Kaur Mahey, who is 'hardworking,¬†committed to clients and ensures they get the best representation they can'.

South East: Real estate

Social housing

Duncan Lewis Solicitors¬†attracts praise for its 'robust practical approach to case management and client management'. The sizeable housing law team regularly acts for social tenants in defending against possession and unlawful eviction cases, with housing law specialists who are 'at the top of their game'. Key figures include¬†Manjinder Kaur Atwal, whose expertise encompasses landlord and tenant disputes, housing disrepair, homelessness, and bringing reviews and appeals relating to local authority housing decisions.

The document entitled "Statement of Changes to Immigration Rules" which was released by the House of Commons on the 7th March 2019, outlined and advised us on a number of changes that will come into place that will affect the Tier 1 Investor Visa amongst other visa programmes and schemes. The latest article on our website discusses both of these new UK business visa routes. Our immigration lawyers London are already up to date on all of the required information for both the NEW Tier 1 Start-Up Visa and the NEW Tier 1 Innovator Visa .

According to the new document from the House of Commons on March 7th 2019 titled ‚ÄúStatement of Changes to Immigration Rules‚ÄĚ, a number of changes will come into place that affecting the Tier 1 UK Investor Visa programme amongst other visa programmes and schemes. Read about them in our latest¬† article .¬†

There is no doubt that the UK has to date benefited immensely from visa-free EU¬†immigration to the extent that visa conditions and caps on non-EU migrant have undermined and overshadowed the ability of this group to play a prominent role in British industry and commerce and in its expanding and overburdened NHS service. It is the view of¬† Gulbenkian Andonian ¬†however, that after¬† Brexit, there should be a noticeable change in those skilled non-EU migrants contributing to British society in a meaningful way.¬†

From 1 January 2021 everyone except for British and Irish citizens will be subject to immigration control in the UK. ¬† Gulbenkian Andonian solicitors has already published an article on this topic of post- Brexit immigration and has discussed the case of EU nationals and family members after Brexit, you can find that article here as one of many in our blog .

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